Example sentences of "[noun sg] started in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the fighting started in 1948 , some Palestinians had even arranged to take a holiday in case of hostilities and had called at the Lebanese consulate in Palestine to pick up a visa for Beirut . |
| 2 | The ceasefire , arranged by the Maronite Patriarch , Mgr Nasrullah Sfeir , was the 12th since fighting started in late January . |
| 3 | The long-brewing courtship started in 1987 . |
| 4 | Financial delegation started in Australia in the early 1970s , but did not really take off until 1983 when the Labour Party , committed to devolution , was elected . |
| 5 | In addition , he received three guineas a year for selling the seating rights of seven of the fourteen Grammar School pews in the Parish Church , a practice started in 1781 by Jackson for £1 10 6d . |
| 6 | The hectic action started in November with Clive Rice 's public-relations visit to India — Wessels 's successes on the tour earned him the man-of-the-series award — and ended six months later in frustration as the West Indians turned imminent defeat into a remarkable victory in one session on the final day of an historic Test , denying two excellent half-centuries by Wessels and Andrew Hudson 's debut century , the first for South Africa . |
| 7 | Alan pond started in 81 in the midst of a recession . |
| 8 | The first field experiment started in 1971 under the leadership of American entomologist Donald Weidhaas , and involved 4–36 million insects ( 14 per cent of which were females ) , sterilised in the pupal stage by immersion in 1 per cent bisazir ( p , p , -bis(l-aziridinyl)-N methylphosphinothioic amide ) for one hour . |
| 9 | Pye 's new robot programme started in January 1973 , with myself at the head . |
| 10 | Phase 2 of the programme started in October 1983 ( immediately after the end of Phase 1 ) and ended in September 1986 . |
| 11 | Phase 3 of BRAC 's Oral Therapy Extension Programme started in October 1986 and ended in October 1990 , with the unsuccessful trial of the rice-salt solution ( described in Chapter 7 ) being conducted in the first half of 1987 . |
| 12 | AREPP 's programme started in Xhosa communities and then spread to other parts of South Africa . |
| 13 | Work started in autumn 1810 . |
| 14 | Work started in 1850 , and although it was substantially complete in 1852 , it was not consecrated until 1859 . |
| 15 | Work started in February 1975 ; two MKIII , ex-Inter-City coaches were modified for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 16 | Staff involved included S. Buchan , W. Edwards , R. C. B. Jones and J. V. Stephens who helped with the mapping of the Orkneys and Shetlands where work started in 1927 . |
| 17 | The Brazilian Baptist Convention — the BMS partner church — is the fruit of Southern Baptist missionary work started in 1881 . |
| 18 | The work started in northern Scotland and has progressed southwards as far as North Wales . |
| 19 | Work started in 1951 . |
| 20 | Work started in January on a £20 million programme of improvements at Stirling Castle , designed to restore the historic fabric of the castle and make it even more interesting for visitors . |
| 21 | Thus the modest increase in DNA synthesis started in hepatocyte cultures by TAGH ( 1:5000 ) is of similar magnitude to that reported for triiodothyronine alone and must act by a pathway other than that of direct interaction with the EGF binding site of the EGF receptor . |
| 22 | Regular radio broadcasting started in 1922 and the BBC was founded in 1926 . |
| 23 | His series of articles in the New York Sun started in a modest way on Friday , 21 August , 1835 , with a detailed description of John Herschel 's marvellous telescope . |
| 24 | Nowhere north of the Tagus was there a class like the landless rural proletariat of Andalusia and Estremadura , and this may account for the relative political stability of Castile : only one nineteenth-century revolt started in the classic wheat lands . |
| 25 | The Current Law Index is a similar publication started in 1980 . |
| 26 | The young hedgehog started in surprise . |
| 27 | The decline of profitability started in the 1950s , when the public sector was small . |
| 28 | THE woman shot seconds before a siege started in Darlington has gone home from hospital . |
| 29 | A rich chuckle started in Madame Rochard 's stomach and gurgled up to her lips . |
| 30 | The SPOT campaign started in November 1991 when , Ms Hinchliffe says , there were 17 accidents involving children , cars and bicycles in a month . |